Maud+Thurmond

On July 28, 1928, 21-year-old homemaker Maud Ellie Patterson Thurmond, a native of Alabama, died in Chicago from sepsis from a criminal abortion performed that day. Nobody was ever held accountable for Maud's death. She likely availed herself of one of Chicago's abundant supply of doctors and midwives running thinly veiled abortion practices.

Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see [|Abortion in the 1920s].

For more on pre-legalization abortion, see [|The Bad Old Days of Abortion] Source:


 * [|Homicide in Chicago Interactive]

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